Metadata/workflow description not visible when workflow is deployed on KNIME Server

[Yves_Wetzels]

Dear

I have some metadata visible in my ‘KNIME AP’ 5.3.3

which is not visible when deployed on ‘KNIME Server’ 4.17.1:

Anybody having the same issue?

Kind Regads
Yves

ps: we did not have that issue on KNIME Server 4.16 (we recenlty migrated)

[marvin_kickuth]

Hi Yves,

Thank you for reporting this issue together with client and server versions – something does seem off.
I haven’t reproduced the exact issue, but in my case, formatting is not applied correctly:

Would you by any chance have a dummy workflow that reproduces your issue (no description at all) that you can share?

In any case, we will open a discussion with development and continue investigating.

Kind regards
Marvin

[Yves_Wetzels]

Hi Marvin

Not sure what you mean with ‘reproduce’ (no description at all)?
I created a dummy workflow ‘test_metadata’:

In KNIME Server you can see the description at the start page (as also shown in your example):

Opening the workflow only shown the ‘tags’, the metadata/description is gone:

Please find attached the dummy workflow.

Kind Regards
test_metadata.knwf (72.8 KB)

Yves

[Yves_Wetzels]

This is defenitly a bug in KNIME AP 5.3.3
I created another ‘dummy’ workflow in KNIME AP 5.2.5:

deployed it to the same KNIME Server 4.17.1

Works …

[marvin_kickuth]

Hi Yves,

Thanks for the quick follow-up. I was referring to your initial screenshot that seemingly didn’t show any description in the WebPortal.

I also believe that the new rich text is not rendered correctly. We are following up with development.

Kind regards
Marvin

[marvin_kickuth]

Hi Yves,

KNIME Business Hub (the successor of KNIME Server) has a feature to support a nicer HTML view. Unfortunately, this feature isn’t available in KNIME Server, which is why workflows created in new clients using this feature now unfortunately look like this.
We’re looking to provide an update with the next KNIME Server version(s) that will strip out extra tags (this will be released as WEBP-972 in the changelog). An alternative would be to use the Classic UI when uploading workflows, which doesn’t use the HTML format.

Kind regards
Marvin

[forum]

Internal ticket ID: WEBP-972
Summary: Workflow descriptions: incorrect formatting
Fix version(s): 4.17.2, 4.18.0